Seeing Zhang Xianzhong so angry, Feng Shuangli's stubbornness of the people of northern Shaanxi also came up, he stiffened his neck, and said loudly: "King, even if you beat me to death, you have to speak up below!" In this Iron Dragon City, the Ming army has already been fully prepared, there are more artillery and earth-shattering thunder, our army is fighting in such a siege battle, how many soldiers are not enough for them to bomb! Unless we find another way, otherwise, this Iron Dragon City will be difficult for our army to capture. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

As soon as Feng Shuangli said this, Zhang Xianzhong's face was still very angry, but the horsewhip he raised was hanging in the air.

Wang Shangli hurriedly interjected on the side: "King, the words of double etiquette are indeed reasonable. Thinking that this Ming army, after attacking our army in Fucha Mountain in Luzhou, immediately returned to this Shandong Iron Dragon City, it should be because this place has been fully prepared to confront our army in this way. If you want to fight again now, you can't fall into Li Xiao's trap again. ”

Wang Shangli's words were vague, and at this time, Sun Kewang, who had not spoken all the time, hesitated and interjected: "This Iron Dragon City is so strong and difficult to overcome, even if our army tries its best to capture it, I am afraid that it will also be greatly damaged. ”

"Smack!"

A fierce slap hit Sun Kewang in the face. On his fair face, five thick finger prints immediately appeared.

"What do you mean? Huh? Your second brother was caught in the city by Ming Gouzi, so it doesn't matter, right, what kind of heart do you have when you are a brother! Zhang Xianzhong turned his head and yelled at Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang was very angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to attack. He wiped away a trace of blood oozing from the corner of his mouth and bowed his head; "What the father-in-law taught was that the child was also worried about the casualties of our army, so he forgot that the second brother was still in the hands of the enemy, and asked the father-in-law to punish the child."

"It's useless to punish you! Think about how to capture Iron Dragon City and rescue your second brother is the right thing. Zhang Xianzhong sighed, threw the horsewhip in his hand, and then called everyone into the account to discuss.

"In today's plan, if you want to capture Iron Dragon City, how to break the large number of earth-shattering thunders of Li Xiao's gang is serious." After everyone entered the account, Wang Shangli took the lead in speaking: "With my intentions, it is better to plunder a large number of people and force them to rush into battle in order to consume Li Xiao's firearms. If Li Xiao's army consumes a lot of firearms such as earth-shaking thunder, our army can attack the city as soon as possible, so that it can break through this iron dragon city in one fell swoop with the advantage of troops. ”

Zhang Xianzhong nodded, quite agreeing with Wang Shangli's point of view.

At this time, Sun Kewang interjected from the side: "Now all over Shanxian County, the remnants of the people in villages and towns have been captured by our army, if you want to get more people, where do you get them?" ”

A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Wang Shangli's eyes: "Hmph, if you want to win the people, what is the difficulty?" This Iron Dragon City is difficult to capture, is it possible that our army can't capture the county seat of Shanxian County, which has few troops and weak city defense? As long as the county seat of Shanxian is captured, tens of thousands of people should be easily obtained. ”

As soon as his words were finished, Zhang Xianzhong's face was happy, and he immediately made a decision: "Shangli's plan is very good, in the past two days, Shuangli your department will temporarily rest and recuperate, and Shangli will lead more than 10,000 soldiers to quickly take the county seat of Shanxian County." ”

Wang Shangli and Feng Shuangli stood up together, arched their hands and said loudly: "I only obey the king's order!" ”

At this time, Sun Kewang hurriedly said from the side: "Father-in-law, the child is willing to help General Wang to seize the county seat of Shanxian County, capture the people, re-attack Tielong City as soon as possible, and rescue the second brother of Dingguo." ”

Zhang Xianzhong was very satisfied when he saw your words: "Okay, you will be your deputy, and Shangli will command 15,000 troops and horses, and rush to attack the county seat of Shanxian County!" ”

"Order!"

Two days later, Li Xiao saw at the head of the city that a large number of rogue soldiers had withdrawn from the north of Iron Dragon City and headed north.

Li Xiao's heart slammed suddenly.

When the enemy army goes, it must be attacking the county seat of Shanxi.

Li Xiao could think that the Liukou must have learned a lesson and wanted to capture Shanxian County and capture the people to rush to the battlefield in order to consume his firearms reserves.

The rogue who entered the dog, how poisonous the intentions are!

How can a single county town with more than 1,000 people resist the rampant attack of more than 10,000 elite rogues!

Thinking of Zhao Yanqing, the county commander of Shan County, he was stupid and narrow-minded, and in order to prevent his so-called seizure of power, he actually disregarded the lives of the people of a county, and simply refused his request to move the residents of Shan County into Iron Dragon City.

For a moment, Li Xiao only felt that his heart was like a knife.

If you want to go out of the city to fight with the besieging troops of more than 30,000 people, you will definitely be at a disadvantage, if the troops sent by the rogues to attack the city in Shanxian will only end up with a quick demise.

"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs."

This is Li Xiao's sigh as he looks at the rogue troops rolling north.

What happened next really verified Li Xiao's worries.

More than 15,000 rogues, with a large number of siege equipment, attacked the county seat of Shanxian County, which had only 1,000 troops and was depressed, which could almost be called a drum.

After only fighting for less than an hour, the soldiers defending the city of Shanxian saw the rogues who poured into the city like a tide, and their legs were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged for their lives.

Zhao Yanqing, the county commander, still has some backbone, and after being captured by Wang Shangli and others, he will never surrender, he still scolds the thief, and the whole family is killed.

It's just that more than 10,000 people in the poor county town are being raped. After being taken captive, all of them became captives and were escorted out of the city by the rogues and went to Iron Dragon City to be used as cannon fodder.

Subsequently, when the Liukou took a large amount of grain, grass, gold and silver out of the city, they set a fire and burned the entire county seat of Shanxian County into a blank field.

Li Xiaojun was at the head of the city, looking at the county seat of Shanxian County in the north, the sky-high flames and billowing black smoke, all of them were angry, but they were helpless.

In the war era, what law, what morality, what conscience, are not worth mentioning, if you want to survive in this cruel and bloody troubled world, you have strong strength, is the foundation of survival.

"Prepare everywhere, it is estimated that in two or three days, the rogues will start a large-scale siege of the city again." Li Xiao put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand and sighed coldly.

Sure enough, only three days later, in the early morning, the rogues, who had remade a large number of siege equipment, began to attack from three sides, just like last time.

On this day, under the gray sky, the continuous spring rain is like a silk curtain, tearing the sky and the ground endlessly.

The day chosen by Liukou was extremely beneficial to their attack, because Li Xiaojun's firearms, on such a rainy day, needless to say, would definitely be greatly reduced.

Fortunately, Li Xiao had been prepared, and he had the artillery at the head of the city put up a simple canopy made of wooden planks, so that the fire door of the fire could prevent water from entering, which made the artillery unusable.

The large open spaces on the other three city walls were also covered with canopies to place gunpowder, ammunition, earth-shaking thunder and other materials.

It's just that trebuchets and the like, because the casting rod is too long to make a canopy, Li Xiao had to tell those trebuchets to be careful when throwing earth-shattering thunder, so as not to be poured out by the rain.

Up to now, Li Xiaojun has built six more trebuchets, and Li Xiao has placed three of these six newly made trebuchets on the west and north city walls.

At present, there are 5 trebuchets on the west and north walls, plus 7 cannons on each of the original walls, and the defensive power of this city wall is still considerable.

With a long and loud swan horn, the attack of the Liukou army officially began.

The main general who attacked the eastern city wall, or Feng Shuangli, the general last time, recovered after a few days, and drew from the people of Shanxian County, this rogue is more than 10,000 people.

The main general of the attack on the northern city wall was Wang Shangli, who led more than 15,000 rogues to shout.

The main general who attacked the western city wall, commanded by Zhang Xianzhong himself, with a total strength of more than 25,000 people, was the main force of the enemy's attack.

Although he had the victory of the last successful defense of the city, and saw that there were overwhelming rogues coming to the people at the three city walls, every Li Xiao soldier who defended the city was still quite frightened.

Seeing that the enemy army used the city wall they were guarding as the main attack point of the attack, Wang Yishou, the chief of the iron dragon guarding the west city wall, felt the pressure double.

Fortunately, Li Xiao had sent all of Lu Mi's men and the rampant team to the western city wall to support him to relieve the huge pressure on his side.

"Lord Li, this time the rogues know that our army is false and real, and it is a rainy day, and the power of our army's firearms is weakened, so I am afraid that these rogues are going to attack with all their might." Standing beside Li Xiao, holding the battlements in his hand, he asked worriedly.

Li Xiao nodded, agreeing with Chen Zilong's opinion.

"The battle that will decide the fate of our army is about to begin." Li Xiao said softly.

"General Chuanben ordered that the enemy's attack this time must be full of strength and go all out to attack the city, and the defenders of the three walls of our army must be prepared to resolutely repel the enemy's attack!" Li Xiao ordered loudly.

"Order!"

When the enemy army marched a mile away, the enemy troops on three sides stopped their march at the same time, and were escorted by small groups of soldiers, so that the captives began to fill in the holes that had been dug.

More than 10,000 people cried and shook the sky, but no one dared to disobey, and they picked up shovels, hoes and other things and began to fill in the landfill.

In fact, a few days ago, the Liukou had ordered the people to fill in almost all the pits 500 steps away, and what they had to do now was to continue to fill in the pits within 500 steps.

Li Xiao noticed that the Liukou had obviously learned the lesson of the last time, and in order to ensure the width of the attack, and also to prevent the troops from being too dense during the attack, and it would be easy for Li Xiao's firearms to strike, they ordered these people to fill in all the holes outside the city.

Due to the large number of people, the progress of landfilling is fast.

An hour later, all the holes of the 500 paces were filled by the people.

Li Xiaojun still did the same as last time, did not give the order to open an artillery attack, and let the people fill in all the holes.

After all, it is meaningless to use the precious earth-shaking thunder to attack such a pure cannon fodder people, except for wasting their own firearms storage.

Li Xiao was still thinking that in the future, he didn't have to do this matter of digging and filling the holes, after all, the enemy army would not have the slightest mercy for the people of the Ming Kingdom, but they just drove them to die in vain.

Seeing that the people had buried the hole, Zhang Xianzhong smiled fiercely, waved the flag in his hand, and the enemy troops from three roads escorted the retreating people and continued to attack the city wall together.

The next way of attacking is actually similar to the last time.

When the enemy army marched to 1,200 paces, the Hongyi cannon, which had the longest range, fired.

Due to the fact that there were civilians rushing into the formation, the number of casualties of the rogues was reduced a lot, and from the distance of 1,200 to more than 500 paces, six Hongyi cannons killed and wounded more than 300 rogues in total.

Next, the attacking rogue troops entered the range of trebuchets and furrons.

8 Franc machines and 18 trebuchets fired almost simultaneously.

From a distance of more than 500 to 100 paces, the Franc machine fired a total of 5 times, killing and wounding more than 300 rogues. The 18 trebuchets were fired twice, and half of the earth-shattering thunderbolts were wet by the rain and did not explode, because the projectile speed was slow, so that the enemy army was prepared, and only killed more than 500 rogues in total.

Compared to the death toll of the rogues, the number of casualties among the people who rushed to the front was at least three times that of the rogues.

At the 100-step mark, all 50 shots were fired. In the continuous sound of guns, the people and the rogues fell down screaming together.

Finally, when the enemy army had marched fifty paces, the six tiger squat cannons placed on the north side of the city finally broke the silence and opened fire together.

The six tiger squatting cannons collectively spewed out a large puff of fierce gunpowder smoke and fire, and countless shotguns flew out from the northern city wall. These thumb or little finger-thick lead shots and iron sand, some of which were also shotguns composed of sharp stones, with a terrible whistling sound, flew all over the sky, densely swept towards these people and rogue soldiers who rushed towards the battle like a rain of iron and stone. And as long as he was swept away by this terrible rain of iron and stone, the body of the person who was hit by the cannon was immediately filled with dense thick blood holes!

The continuous miserable sound sounded violently, blood and flesh splattered everywhere, and outside the moat of the northern city wall hundreds of meters wide, it was sprayed with dark red blood and colorful human tissue, and the whole field was like a hellish slaughterhouse, extremely bloody and terrifying.

Li Xiaojun's fierce blow this time caused at least 500 rogues and thousands of ordinary people to die in agony together.

By the time the enemy army marched to the moat on three sides, Li Xiao's army had eliminated more than 2,000 rogue soldiers. This number is simply not worth mentioning for nearly 50,000 rogues.

In Li Xiao's heart, when he saw that the rogue had only killed and injured such a few people, he successfully rushed to the moat, and he was quite helpless.

This is mainly due to the fact that the power of the earth-shattering thunder ejected from this heavy rainy day has been greatly reduced. Quite a lot of earth-shattering thunder was still in the air, and the fuse was so wet with rain that it could not be detonated, which greatly reduced the number of casualties among the rogues.

"Make the people rush through the trenches and build siege ladders!" Zhang Xianzhong, who personally escorted the battle, saw that his army had successfully arrived at the moat, and excitedly gave an order.

When it rained heavily, the rogues roared excitedly, and then laid some of the siege ladders flat on the moats, and ordered the people to cover them with the wooden planks they had brought to make a simple trench bridge.

The soldiers then forced the people to rush through the trenches with siege ladders.

Some people were afraid of the artillery fired from time to time by Li Xiaojun, who was at the head of the city, and refused to step forward, and was immediately killed on the spot by the rogue.

A large number of people were afraid of swords, and had to cry and carry siege ladders and rush to the three walls.

Seeing that a large number of people were attacking with ladders, Li Xiao ordered that the auxiliary troops everywhere would not release the earth-shaking thunder for the time being, but would attack with ash bottles of gold juice first.

Hundreds of cauldrons, bubbling and steaming with dung, poured down from three walls with the help of auxiliaries and urgently recruited family members of the city.

"Wow!"

"Wow!"

"Wow!"

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The hot and smelly stool gold juice poured on the people under the city wall who were about to bring the siege ladder close to the city wall.

A large number of people screamed in unison, and thousands of people were burned by the hot dung water, and they were on the verge of death.

Soon, thousands of thin porcelain quicklime bottles more than one person high filled with quicklime were thrown down from the three walls like hailstones.

With the crackling sound coming from under the city wall, one by one the quicklime porcelain bottles exploded, and the flying lime powder instantly turned a large number of people into blind.

In the heavier and heavier rain, the quicklime encountered the water, and immediately a violent chemical reaction occurred, and the people who were lucky enough to escape the attack of the hot dung water were burned to the point that the skin and flesh were open and smelly.

It's just that Rao is like this, these people who are like trapped in the Infernal Hell, afraid of the coercion behind them, still come one after another, crying and carrying the siege ladder to come over.

Seeing this cruel and miserable scene under the city, Li Xiao's soldiers at the head of the city were extremely uncomfortable in their hearts.

In a chaotic world of blood and fire, human life is as cheap as grass.

It is better to be a peaceful dog than to disturb the world.

It's just that Li Xiao has no other choice than mercilessly killing these people who were coerced and besieging the city.

If you don't want people to try against me, you need me to try people, and if you don't kill these people, you will be killed by the bandits.

Killing people to save the world is a cruel paradox.

"Master Li, the gold juice and ash bottle have been used up, what should I do now?" Li Haoran, who has now become Li Xiao's herald, asked Li Xiao in a trembling voice.

"Wait for the ladder to get closer, and then throw the earth-shattering thunder to blow up as many people under the city as possible, along with those siege ladders." In the heavy rain, Li Xiao's face was as blue as iron, and he ordered in a cold voice. (To be continued.) )